Answer:
Plants
Explanation:
You can walk on it, eat it, and you can watch it grow
In what part of the novel are you speaking?
Well if its a "real word" may depend on dialect, or where your from specifically. There are many words in Texas not really recognized as "real words" like "y'all" or many things like that. Perhaps it is a word somewhere. But I have never heard it. Remember, language is like a liquid, always shifting, and changing.